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by richard

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Ok, here's a quick and easy one for you (hopefully!)!

I'm running xp on a corprate LAN with a proxy server. In IE6 I've made the mistake of ticking the 'remember your username and password' checkbox on the proxy login box.

Where does this get cached, and how can I remove it so the proxy server prompts me again?

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by tabcomputers2002

You can clear all you IE logins and passwords as well as your name, address etc by clearing the "auto complete" information. In IE, go to TOOLS => INTERNET OPTIONS => CONTENT => AUTO COMPLETE. From there you'll have options to clear passwords and logins. Just click the buttons.

Hope this helps.
Tim

by richard

This only clears cached usernames etc for webpages, ie my hotmail account. I need to clear my proxy creds.

by mr-rich

"Brain dead today am I."
Not sure where cached, most likely cached on server as well. This a registry edit may to prevent pwd's from being cached.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"CachedLogonsCount"="0"

Here is a link that might be helpful.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/constants/clearauthenticationcache.asp

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